Bakri Hassan Salih is a survivor of Nimeiri’s time who helped to consolidate the National Islamic Front regime after the NIF’s 1989 coup; at the time he was seen as a typical non-Islamist beer-drinking army officer...

The Defence Minister General Bakri Hassan Salih went to Moscow in April and said Sudan supported Russia's anti-terrorist war bizarrely comparing Chechnya's Islamist terrorists to the southern Sudanese rebels...